Kara Godbehere

Associate

Overview

Kara Godbehere has experience in water litigation as well as assisting buyers, sellers and real estate brokers in completing due diligence and verifying title to water, mineral, and other property rights and ensuring the proper conveyance of such rights. She has worked with a wide variety of clients around the state on water/property transactions and litigation. Kara’s initial interest in water law was from the agricultural perspective, and her family still farms in northern Oklahoma.

Kara received her B.A. with honors and a minor in political science from the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, and her J.D. with a certificate in Resources, Environment and Energy Law from the University of Tulsa College of Law. Kara completed her third year of law school at the University of Colorado as a visiting student while clerking at a water litigation firm.

Representative clients have included individuals, corporations, mutual ditch companies, real estate developers/brokers, municipalities/counties, special districts, school districts, farmers/ranchers, and ski resorts regarding their water and property needs. Kara has trial and hearing experience before Water and District Courts around the state, the Colorado Ground Water Commission, the Colorado Court of Appeals, Colorado Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, and the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.

Kara is an executive council member of the Colorado Bar Association's Water Law Section and co-chair of the Boulder Bar Association Real Estate Section. She also teaches Colorado Water Law and Water Rights Administration at Metropolitan State University of Denver, and volunteers at her son’s elementary school in the Boulder Valley School District.